9/11 is what I would call low intensity: not very big and not very frequent.

There are parts of the world which have suffered much more intensive terrorist campaigns.

Let’s put this into perspective.

Imagine a single bombing attack which killed 5800 Americans including 1200 children and 1200 teenagers and left 44,000 injured, many of them severely. That would leave quite a scar on the national psyche: the anniversary of 15th August would be marked by much weeping every year.

Or imagine that, size for size, America suffered not just one attack of the size of 9/11, but seven such attacks. Every year.

Imagine that America suffered seven or eight attacks of the size of 9/11 every year for 32 years. A terrorist campaign that left 705,000 Americans dead.

The BBC reported the arrest of Rebecca Leighton, 27, charged with three counts of criminal damage with intent to endanger life. They published this artist’s impression of the person suspected of killing five people by tampering with IV supplies.

Just look at that face. Is she guilty?

I do not feel that this does justice to someone accused of such a heinous crime, so I offer boab’s impression of the accused:

Now it appears that there is insufficient evidence (prob’ly never was) against Rebecca. Here are some actual photos of her.